SAS-70 is Worthless: Why You’re Looking at the Wrong Reports

Do you ask your provider if they are SAS-70 or SSAE-16 certified? Do you only validate that your partners conduct an annual PCI or HIPAA assessment? If so, you’re asking the wrong questions. Major regulatory and compliance standards have seen significant updates and the old way of assessing compliance is obsolete. In this live webinar you will learn:
• The trouble with relying on SAS-70 and SSAE-16
• How to evaluate your Cloud providers
• How to maintain continual security and compliance monitoring between audits

Microsoft Power BI is an affordable, powerful data modeling and visualization tool, with widespread adoption and universal appeal for many reasons.

The main reason everyone loves Power BI is the rapid update schedule and all of the cool, new features regularly added to both the desktop and web versions. With these rapid updates, it can be hard to stay on top of what is available from one release to the next.

Join Rodney Landrum, Senior DBA/BI Consulting Services at Ntirety, a division of HOSTING, as he demos his top 5 favorite features of the latest Microsoft Power BI including:

Whether you've attended or missed AWS re:Invent 2017 in Vegas, join Stelligent's CTO Paul Duvall and Chief Architect Casey Lee for insights on what the new announcements will mean for the DevOps community. We will cover some essential best practices and resources for you as you head into the new year and you too can be continuously deploying!

About Stelligent
Stelligent is a technology services company that provides DevOps automation and Managed Services on Amazon Web Services. As an AWS Partner Network (APN) Premier Consulting Partner and AWS Managed Service Provider with deep expertise in Continuous Delivery solutions, our services guide and empower customers to achieve increased agility, confidence and cost savings from their applications on AWS.

Chuck Dudley, Vice President of Services at Stelligent, a division of HOSTING

If you are planning on deploying resources onto AWS, or if you have already started on the journey and are looking for opportunities to improve the security of your DevOps environments on AWS, then this webinar is for you.

Learn how to infuse security validation in your development and deployment processes for continuous security on AWS. Hear from Chuck Dudley, Vice President of Services at Stelligent on leveraging the same process and objective criteria used successfully with their customers.

To take full advantage of platforms such as AWS or Azure, organizations need to be able to manage cost, compliance, security, policies, and overall visibility. Many are finding that this is a lot to tackle on their own.

Join Tricia Pattee, Vice President of Product, and Mike McCracken Vice President of Advanced Solutions for this interactive seminar where they will discuss HOSTING’s built-in optimization solutions that prevent wasted spend and help maximize the move to public cloud.

The average investment to meet cloud compliance obligations is $250,000 per year, and the fees for not complying can be as much as $100,000 a month. So while the investment is worthwhile, many companies are unable to achieve such standards due mainly to budget constraints and a lack of expertise.

Join Tricia Pattee, VP of Product at HOSTING, Brandon Bennett, VP of Customer Success at Allgress, and Jeff Bennett, CEO of Allgress as they discuss the following:

We also demo a couple new solutions such as an industry-leading compliance dashboard and a (free) Compliance Posture Evaluation tool recently launched to provide you with actionable items for passing an audit.

In a special webcast, Bill Santos, President at HOSTING, and Wayne Shaw, Cloud Architect at HOSTING, cover leading DRaaS and Ransomware solutions that can help protect your company from a data disaster.

The architectural pattern of decomposing an application into microservices has proven extremely effective at delivering software faster. However, this type of an architecture comes with its fair share of challenges.

Fortunately, Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers many services that can be leveraged to overcome these challenges and adopt microservice best practices. If you are just starting to consider using AWS for running your microservices or if you have already started on the journey and looking for opportunities to improve, then this webinar will be beneficial for you.

Join Dan Waymire, Senior Manager of UCSL Feature Development at HOSTING, as he dives into hybrid cloud best practices and how companies can align business and IT objectives to achieve organization goals. During the webcast, he will go over the following:

- Utilizing hybrid environments to drive better business outcomes
- Aligning IT and business goals to deliver solutions
- Case Study: A look into how HOSTING built a brand new service to resolve a real-life company need
- An introduction to HOSTING’s Monitoring Insights Service, a first-to-market solution that provides a single-pane view of all of your hybrid IT tools

We've found that there is a direct correlation between automation of software delivery processes and success with customers. This is especially true in the cloud. Whether you are just thinking about the move, or are already feeling the pain of manual processes, this webinar is well worth your hour investment.

We cover essentials such as how to properly assess one's own readiness for automation, as well as how to lay out a realistic plan to achieve the desired level of automation. Along the way, we reference both open source and AWS native services and tools you can use to be continuously deploying like a boss!

At HOSTING, we understand the importance of setting up success criteria (KPIs) to measure your IT team’s impact (value) in direct partnership with the business.

Join me, Tricia Pattee, Vice President of Product at HOSTING, for KPI: Aligning Your IT and Business Objectives, a live webinar in which I’ll discuss common problem areas that companies experience when trying to align their IT teams and business departments. I’ll go over:

- How to define IT objectives
- Common challenges
- Common Approach Challenges
- Common Tool Challenges
- Proposed Strategies

No company is safe from a Ransomware attack (malicious forms of software programmed to steal company data and hold it for "ransom"). However, technology has allowed us to mitigate these attacks by implementing proper recovery systems that can ensure that cyber criminals will not see a dime from your business.

Join me, Ed Schaefer, Director of Cloud Services at HOSTING, and Donal Farrell, Cloud Architect at Zerto, on November 10th at 3 PM EST for the live webinar, "Ransomware: Mitigation through Preparation". During the event, we will be going over:

-The origin and rise of the current wave of Ransomware threats
- What businesses are most vulnerable to these types of attacks
- Security practices that you can adopt to protect your company data

"Cyberhunting" actively looks for signs of compromise within an organization and seeks to control and minimize the overall damage. These rare, but essential, breed of enterprise cyber defenders give proactive security a whole new meaning.

Join me, Mike McCracken, Director of Professional Services at HOSTING, and Chris Dodunski, CTO of Phirelight Security Solutions on October 27th at 3 PM EST for the live webinar, Cyber Threat Hunting: A New Dimension of Cyber Intelligence.

Larry Collins, Product Manager at HOSTING and James Askham, Solutions Engineer at CloudFlare

The threat of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks is a growing problem for mission-critical websites, such as eCommerce shops, SaaS applications, gaming forums, and University portals; in addition, politically or artistically important organizations and journalists can be especially at risk of attack, due to the nature of their website content.

The company CloudFlare delivers DDoS protection to over 4,000,000 websites globally, from personal blogs to large enterprises, while also offering a free protection program for respected free speech, public interest, and civil society organizations, called “Project Galileo”.

Join Larry Collins, Product Manager at HOSTING, and special guest, James Askham, Solutions Engineer at CloudFlare, on October 20th at 3 PM EST for the webinar Hacktivism Culture: DDoS 101. During the live event, they will go over:

•What a DDoS attack is from a technical perspective
•The most common types of DDoS attacks
•Best practices for mitigating against these attacks and how CloudFlare’s “Project Galileo” protects political and artistic organizations.

With the widespread use of connected devices, hackers have configured new ways to access your smartphones and laptops, even without you knowing. The Pineapple is a router that stages a fake WIFI access point, compromising the security of any smart device that unknowingly connects to it. During the live webinar, Johan Hybinette, CISO at HOSTING, will be going over the following discussion points:

- The technical makeup of the pineapple router
- How the Pineapple hacks into connected devices
- What personal information is at the most risk
- What you can do to protect yourself from this malicious form of identity theft

Recently the president of the American Medical Association referred to healthcare IT as the “snake oil” of the 21st century. He referenced ineffective electronic health records, an explosion of direct-to-consumer digital health products, and apps of mixed quality.

In this webinar, leading healthcare expert, Marion Jenkins, will cover the major causes of this sorry state of affairs, and discuss how healthcare technologies can actually help medical practices deliver better patient care.

Major areas to be covered:

1.Who is to blame? There is plenty to go around. Physicians? Healthcare IT vendors? The government? The solution must get past blame and address solutions.

2.How can clinical users and executives “break through” the logjam of sub-optimal IT systems, poor implementation, and ineffective workflows?

3.Is it possible to utilize new technologies to improve patient care, without breaking the bank and further hurting the clinician/patient experience?

4.What are the necessary changes that enable technology to actually provide benefit in a healthcare setting?

As a program manager at HOSTING, Kellen Amobi has assisted in many customer data migrations over the years. During the live webinar, Kellen will be sharing top five migration mistakes that companies have made in the past and what experience has taught her about resolving the issues quickly, including:

Manny Segarra, Agile Coach at HOSTING, will dive into a discussion on the benefits that values have on company culture. During the webinar, Manny will hit on a few key benefits of incorporating more accountability and respect into your everyday office practices, including:

-Building a stronger work culture, not just a stronger environment
-Improving morale
-Creating a more agile team

HOSTING is a leading provider of managed cloud hosting services for mission-critical applications. Using enterprise-class networking and connectivity technologies, we provide the highest levels of availability, recovery, security, and responsiveness. We own and operate six geographically-dispersed data centers across the United States under an ITIL-based control environment independently validated for compliance against the PCI DSS and SOC (formerly SAS 70) frameworks. We offer monthly How To and Best Practices webinars for Managed Cloud Hosting.